Through a Child's Eyes

What if the monsters children see a night are real? What if one night, the monster stop watching, and start doing?....

(This is my first attempt at horror so please don't complain.)

Submitted:Feb 18, 2014
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The bloodcurdling scream of his mother shakes Tommy awake in the
black of night. His eyes burst open and he peers around the room
from his bed. His head turns slowly in all directions, observing,
looking for the monster that lurks in his room: he is not here.
Anothee bloodcurdling scream comes from down the hallway, this
one from his father.

Almost compelled, the five year old slowly takes his blanket from
over top of him and stands out of bed. Slowly he tiptoes from his
bed in his green Ninja Turtle pajamas, his brown hair in a mess.
He steps slowly out of the open door of his room down the long
dark hallway.

With each step he hears the shrieks of his parents. As he grows
closer, Tommy can hear the sounds of large cracks echoing from
the room. A sliver of light comes from his parents bedroom door.
With one step, a floorboard creeks under Tommy's foot. Suddenly a
shadow as tall as the door fills in 2/3 of the sliver of light
from his parents door. All Tommy can see is a large red eye
glowing from the shadow.

Tommy freezes as he looks into the eye for what seems like an
eternity. Petrified in fear, the only thing that Tommy manages to
do is let a tear run down the left side of his cheek. The red eye
burns at Tommy and then blinks, making Tommy gasp sharply. The
shadow disappears from the door and the shrieks of his parents
continue.

They continue for a few minutes and then suddenly stop. Tommy
stands in the hallway motionless for a moment before finding his
five year old courage. Slowly, Tommy begins to step forward
again. He creeps over slowly, his body partially paralyzed by
fear. As he reaches his parents' door, he peers in through the
crack between the door and the doorframe.

What he sees in the room brings his five year old soul to torment
and his body to screams louder than his parents. From the crack
he can see the bodies of his parents in the middle of the floor.
Blood is pooled under and around them and a dew drops are in the
crack of the door. He reaches out with his tiny left hand and
pushes the door open slowly, fully revealling the scene. He
screams loudly again and runs to his parents bodies.

He runs to his mother, her torso laying in her blood spattered,
mint green lace night gown. Her long brown hair sitting in the
blood on the hardwood floor. Her body is face up, revealing her
face trapped covered in blood. Her mouth his cut at the corners,
extending from ear to ear, her jaw open. Her open mouth is now
absent a tongue and her eyesockets missing her once beautifully
jade eyes like Tommy's. He hugs her body, his tears mixing with
the blood on her gown.

"Mommy," he screeches. "Mommy wake up! Mommyyyyyy!" Tommy's sobs
and screams mixing together as he stands and runs to his dad. He
hugs his father's uncovered torso, splattered with blood as well.
His face is that of his wife's, sliced cheeks and missing
components.

"Daddy!" The horrified five year old yells. "Mommy won't wake up!
Daddy?" He screeches again and lets more tears down his face.

The confused five year old does what any five year old would and
returns to his mother. He sits on the ground facing her body and
leans forward, resting the side of his head on her breasts. He
sits there in the blood, crying into his lifeless mother's body,
looking into the dark hallway. At the very end of it, the red eye
appears again, staring at the child. After a moment it disappears
and Tommy closes his eyes.

He cries himself to sleep, blood mixing with tears ans saturating
the boy's pajamas and hair.....